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KANNIN, Feb. 17 (RIA Novosti). Hockey players of the Russian team defeated the US team in their final match of the group stage of the Olympic tournament at the Games-2018 in Pyeongchang and went directly to the quarter finals of the competition.

The meeting of group B, held on Saturday in Kannin, ended with a score of 4: 0 (1: 0, 2: 0, 1: 0) in favor of the Russians. Nikolay Prokhorkin (8th and 23rd minutes) and Ilya Kovalchuk (40, 41), who broke Pavel Bure's record and became the best scorer of the Russian national team at the Olympics with 13 goals, formed the Russian team in the double.

The Russian team scored 6 points in three games and took first place in the quartet, which gives a direct ticket to the quarter finals, bypassing the first round of the playoffs.

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